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I've looked into this a bit further, although I don't myself have a full Oracle Solaris system to test on; rather, at home I have a system running Tribblix, an Illumos distro. So there will...

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Good to know that the problem is now identified and that you have a working solution for the Linux systems, at least. As for the Solaris one, you'll most likely have to find an alternative...

Is the chpasswd utility available on your system? man chpasswd:

Id guess that passwd is refusing to take input from a non-terminal.

On *nix servers I find usermod(8) to be much more reliable for this sort of thing e.g.:

#!/bin/bash
##data file name is...

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OK, thanks. And it works on all four servers if done manually, and not just munsbxlinux3 ?

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That at least is easy to explain. You can't really 'comment out' input. So what is happening is that 'ssh' is attempting to connect to the hosts whose names start with a hash symbol, and DNS...

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OK, thanks for the feedback. If you try running it with the '-x' flag to Bash, which will make it show you each step as it executes, where does it hang ? So you'd want to run bash -x...

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Just checking, but are you running it with the filename as an argument ? e.g. ./script.sh serverlist.txt or something like that ? The script takes the first argument ($1) as the...

maybe -n option for ssh is missing as its a script... Otherwise ssh is tempted to read StdIN which here is void...

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I think that this behaviour is being caused by the use of a 'while read' loop to drive the 'ssh' command. The way input is read in and processed in this particular script may not actually be...

Just guessing that you are not running a (recent) bash for your "substring expansion" ${firstLine:0:3} as it is the usual syntax and should work. ${cut -c1-8} should be a "command substitution" in...